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The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) is investigating a fifth new allegation of gross misconduct about Scotland's Chief Constable, Philip Gormley. Commissioner Kate Frame received a complaint from the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) yesterday and after considering the allegatio

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has apologised to a man over a series of failings by prosecutors and police which led to him being placed on bail for almost two years and tried for rape. Liam Allan, 22, from London, had been charged with 12 counts of rape and sexual assault.

Scullion LAW has launched its annual FREE-WILL campaign in aid of Marie Curie.Since 2015 the wills & future planning team at Scullion LAW have helped nearly 400 people across Lanarkshire and Glasgow make a free will. This is part of the firm's continued commitment to the community in recognitio

Ahead of the second reading of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill in the Upper House, the House of Lords Constitution Committee is calling on the UK government to amend the bill. The committee’s report, published today, states that legislation is necessary to ensure legal continuity and certaint

Govanhill Law Centre has been successful in persuading a local authority in Scotland to almost treble its rate of pay for overnight "sleepover care". A self-directed care funding package had made provision for £3.51 per hour gross pay for overnight care workers - £3.03 per hour net. That figure ha

Scottish solicitors have endorsed amendments to practice rules intended to raise standards around their anti-money laundering practices and incidental financial business - the vote was counted at the Law Society of Scotland's special general meeting, in Edinburgh yesterday. The Law Society’s curre

The excellent piece below by Robert Pirrie of the WS tonehociety records the friendship, some may say ‘bromance’ between Robert Burns and Robert Ainslie WS. It was one of many friendships the poet had with lawyers, reflecting the prominent role of ‘writers’ as they were known in the intellec

UK statutory sick pay as well as government help for jobless and self-employed people breach international obligations, a European committee has ruled. The European Committee of Social Rights, a monitoring body of the Council of Europe, described the money available to people claiming statutory sick

The number of prosecutions that have collapsed because of a failure by prosecutors or police to disclose evidence has risen by 70 per cent in the past two years, the BBC reports. In 2017, 916 people had charges against them dropped because evidence had not been disclosed, a dramatic increase on 2014

The Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee has endorsed the Islands Bill in a new report but said it is vital that the actual priorities of Islanders are reflected in the National Islands Plan that will follow the bill. The committee recommends:

DWF is sponsoring the annual Lord Jones Mooting Competition for the second year. The intervarsity competition will be held on Saturday 27th January 2018 at the Scrymgeour Building at the University of Dundee. Teams of law students from universities across Scotland will compete against each other to

Solicitors in Dunbartonshire have explained why they joined their colleagues across Scotland in withdrawing from the Scottish Legal Aid Board’s police station duty scheme. On Thursday, new laws will come into force entitling anyone who faces police questioning to legal advice, regardless of whethe

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A rape prosecution against a student has collapsed after police admitted errors in gathering evidence. Oliver Mears 19, a student at Oxford University, was on bail for two years after he was accused of raping a teenage woman after a party in 2015.

A man, known as 'Victim D', who suffered abuse at the hands of his mother as a child is suing a victims’ charity over missed compensation, The Herald reports. Victim D’s mother was jailed for five years in 2011 for subjecting her son to abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.